Clothes-pin.



APPLICATION FILED SEPT-10,1915.

W. HAGELSTEIN.

CLOTHES PIN.

Patented Sept. 26, 1916.

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WILLIAM HAGELSTEIN, OF NEW YORK,1\T.

CLOTHES-PIN.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 2%, 1916.

Application filed September 10, 1915. Serial No. 49,870.

. and will effectively retain clothes upon a line, and which shall be simple in construction, relatively cheap to manufacture, and not liable to get out of order.

My invention comprises novel details of improvement and combinations of parts that will be more fully hereinafter set forth and then pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming part hereof, wherein,

Figure l is a face view of a clothes pin embodying my invention, and Fig. 2 is a section on the line 2, 2, in Fig. 1.

My improved clothes pin comprises a main body or member 1, and a spring member 2, adapted to clamp a clothes line and clothes therebetween. The body 1 may preferably be made of wood of suitable shape and dimensions, and the same is shown provided with a recess 3 receiving the coil 2 of the spring member 2. The coil 2 of the spring member 2 is thus substantially concealed within the recess of the body 1, and the pin may be readily handled, without a tendency to displace coil 2 and as the latter is hidden within the main body it will not be injured or displaced when the pin falls or lies upon the ground. The spring member 2 is bent at 2 so that its main part may extend over and lie against the front or outer face of the body 1. The end portion 2 of the spring member 2 is shown entered in a hole 1 in the body 1 that communicates with the recess 3, whereby the outward movement of the main part of the spring member 2 is resisted. At 5 is a pin carried by body 1 and passing through the recess 3 and through the eye of the coil 2 of. the spring member 2, serving to aid in retaining the coil 2 in the recess 3, and to resist outward movement of the spring member 2. Body 1 is shown provided with a transverse groove 6 opposed to the main or free part of the spring member 2, adapted to receive a portion of a clothes line, which is thereby kept from slipping relatively to the pin.

The lower front face of the'body l is shown tapered or beveled at 7 in a direction away from the extreme end of the spring member 2 providing a recess therebetween for the admission of a rope to facilitate the application of the pin to the clothes line. The free end of the member 2 1S Sl1OWIl bent to serve as a handle for operatmg it.

In using my improvements the clothes, together with the line, may be applied between the ends of the body 1 and spring member 2, and the latter may separate against tension of the spring member 2 to admit the clothes and line therebetween, and the line, as well as part of the article thereon, may enter a groove 6 to aid in retaining the parts fastened together. The pin may be readily removed from the line, as by first separating the body 1 and spring member 2, and then pulling off the pin.

Having now described my invention what I claim is:

l. A clothes pin comprising-a body provided with a recess, and a spring member having a coil located in said recess and hav-.

ing a main spring clamping portion extending freely along and opposed to the front face of the body, to clamp an object therebetween, the spring member having a pro jcction located in an aperture in the body that communicates with said recess, the walls of said aperture retaining the projection in said aperture.

2. A clothes pin comprising a body provided with a recess, and a spring member having a coil located in said recess and having a main spring clamping portion integral with the coil and extending freely along and opposed to the front face of the body, and a pin located in said body and passing through said recess and through the coil' of the spring clamping member whereby the coil is secured to the body.

3. A clothes pin comprising a member provided with a recess, a spring member having a coil located in said recess and having a' main spring clamping portion integral with the coil and opposed to and extending freely along the front face of the body, and a pin located in said body and passing through Signed at New York city, in the county said recess and through the coil of the of New York and State of New York, this spring clamping member, the spring clamp- 9th day of September, A. D. 1915.

in member having a projection located in an aperture in the body that communicates WILLIAM HAGELSTEIN' with said recess whereby the spring clamp- WVitness:

ing member is further secured in position. T. F. BOURNE.

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